D7.15 Improper dealings with immigration or identity documents

See also Immigration Act s 345

1. It is an offence, whether inside or outside New Zealand, to produce, surrender or pass off an immigration or identity document:
   1. as one’s own knowing the document relates to some other person; or
   2. knowing the document to have been forged or obtained fraudulently.
2. It is an offence, whether in or outside New Zealand, to sell, hire, lend, give, or otherwise dispose of an immigration or identity document relating to oneself to any other person (the receiver) knowing or intending that the receiver intends to:
   1. produce it or pass it off as relating to the receiver, or some other person; or
   2. sell, hire, lend, give, or otherwise dispose of it.
3. An immigration or identity document means:
   1. a passport; or
   2. a certificate of identity; or
   3. an endorsement in a passport of the type described in section 384 of the Immigration Act 2009; or
   4. evidence of a visa; or
   5. an invitation to apply for a visa; or
   6. a certificate of citizenship; or
   7. anything purporting to be a document described in any of paragraphs (i) to (vii) above.

Effective 29/11/2010